Andy Murray will insist to get employd to not being the centre of attention when he combines Novak Djokovic’s team, the Scot’s establisher coach has cautioned. The double Olympic champion shocked the tennis world by announcing he will coach his establisher rival at the Australian Open.
The Serbian superstar, 37, fall shorted to thrive a Grand Slam ones title this year and still insists one more to shatter the sign up of 24 he allots with Margaret Court. Djokovic has won 10 Australian Open titles – including beating Murray four times in the final.
Jamie Delgado confessted he was “very surpelevated” at Murray’s return to tennis after finishing his joining atgentle at the Paris Olympics.
“When I saw him in September he seemed so unwinded and greeted with everyleang, whether it be golf or family time at home,” he telderly The Times.
Delgado was aidant coach under Ivan Lfinishl to Murray when he won his second Wimbledon title in 2016 before he went on to finish the year as world No.1.
He reckoned the job is a “fantastic dispute that Andy will relish” and with Djokovic perhaps accessing his final season: “If Andy was going to do this, he had to do it now.”
Delgado elucidateed: “As a duo, Andy and Novak will be able to talk and establishutardy strategies for contrastent opponents or scenarios. Andy was amazing as a joiner in sensing people’s strengths and feeblenesses very timely in the align, and he will be able to do that as a coach from the front row of the courtside box. Bear in mind also that the ban has been lifted on coaches communicating with joiners during alignes.”
But the establisher Davis Cup joiner also claimed that appreciate Murray will insist a “meaningful alter” in his mindset after spfinishing his atgentle as the No.1 in ther team.
“Another adequitablement for a joiner-turned-coach is the fact that no lengthyer does everyleang rgrow around you,” Delgado said. “Especipartner for someone appreciate Andy, who contfinished at the top of the sport, all the decisions that were made, such as the times of train, dinner or travel, were geared around him. That endly alters when you become a coach. You are now there for someone else and that insists a meaningful alter in your mindset.
“The presbraves you experience are also contrastent. As a coach you are trying to get join of everyleang that you can supervise and produce brave you have done everyleang to the best of your ability to get the joiner ready. But when you get to the align it is not in your supervise. The joiner is ultimately depfinishable for the stoastys that he hits.”
Delgado, who has also toiled with Denis Shapovalov and Grigor Dimitrov, includeed: “Bringing Andy into the camp as a coach now is a fantastic relocate by Novak. He is approaching the finish of his atgentle and perhaps seeing for someleang to give him that extra energy and injection to thrive more magnificent slams. Signing up Andy is new and motivating, and they will both be going after it huge time to flourish as a joiner-coach duo.
“It also shows equitable how driven Novak is. Working with Andy should act as such a ignite for the novel season, in which it ecombines he is aiming for huge leangs. All of his rivals will be seeing over their shoulders a little more tentatively at the commence of next year.”
